Poyer was the on-camera Military Affairs Analyst and Reporter for a major television station in Los Angeles, California and has served as an expert commentator on the History ChannelÂ’s series, Tales of the Gun. He has also served as editor of the following magazines: Safe & Secure Living International Military Review, International Naval Review and as field editor for International Combat Arms. Combat Shotguns, The M1 Garand 1936 to 1957, The SKS Carbine, The M14-Type Rifles, The SAFN-49 Battle Rifle, The Swedish Mauser Rifles, The M16/AR15 Rifles, The American Krag Rifle and Carbine, and The Model 1911 and Model 1911A1 Military and Commercial Pistols. Winchester Trench and Riot Guns, and other U.S. He written and published twelve novels with worldwide sales exceeding five million copies and authored or co-authored ten non-fiction books on the modern military and nine books on firearms. Joe Poyer is the author of more than 400 magazine articles on firearms, the modern military, military history and personal security. It only gave way to the Model 1903 Springfield as the latter rifle could be loaded quickly and easily with a five round clip of more powerful ammunition. Army for eleven years, it did so admirably and saw much hard fighting. Even though the Krag only served the U.S. Army and Marines brought their Krag rifles to mainland China in concert with forces from other European nations and quickly relieved the siege of the Foreign Legations at Peking and then helped clear the country of insurgents. In 1900, Chinese revolutionaries styled the "Boxers" threatened to murder all foreigners in China. The combination of Spanish imperialism in Cuba and the sinking of the battleship, USS Maine, led the United States into a short, sharp war in 1898 that gave way to a longer, more bitter fight in the Philippines. So successful had been the design and initial production phase, that only minor changes were made to the rifle and carbine afterward. Army, both mounted and dismounted branches, were completely equipped with the new rifle and carbine. In just four short years, the entire U.S. This meant that the production facilities and work force had to be completely rebuilt and reorganized. The Krag was the first precision-machined, small caliber, magazine loading rifle adopted by the U.S. All but two troops of cavalry were still stationed west of the Mississippi River and no military formations in regimental strength had been assembled since the Sioux Wars in 1876-1877. The frontier had been settled in the late 1880s and the Army had been reduced in strength to not quite 18,000 strong, and was scattered halfway around the world from Plattsburgh, New York to Anchorage, Alaska to Honolulu, Hawaii. Army in the mid-1890s was a peacetime organization. It was the ideal time to introduce a new rifle. A new and complete exploded view is included as are instructions for assembly and disassembly of the rifle and carbine. The mystery of the so-called Philippine Constabulary rifles is solved and the "School" rifle is introduced.
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A monthly serial number chart by production year has been devised that will provide the collector with the year and month in which his rifle or carbine was manufactured. All changes to all parts are described and matched to serial number ranges. The American Krag Rifle and Carbine provides the arms collector, historian and target shooter with a part-by-part analysis of what has been called the "rifle with the smoothest bolt action ever designed." Each of the fifteen models of the American Krag rifle and carbine are described in detail. The arm was adopted from a Norwegian design in 1892 and reached the troops starting in mid-1894. The Krag rifle and carbine were the first smokeless powder, magazine loading arms used by the United States Army.